Zoology and wildlife conservation

White House bill would ban human cloning

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President Bill Clinton, acting on the advice of his bioethics advisors, has sent a bill to congress provisionally banning the use of human cloning to produce children. The bill will not ban research into animal cloning, which, the President says, could have medical benefits. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission will be required to undertake an on-going study of cloning during the new law's five-year duration, reporting to Clinton six months before its expiry date. The commission has not yet decided whether human cloning is ethically acceptable, but is calling for a ban on safety grounds.

NIH resists bill to promote research into Parkinson's

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) oppose the Udall bill that aims to increase funding for Parkinson's disease research to $100 million annually. The director of NIH opines that research on Parkinson's disease will benefit from research in all nerve cells rather than federal mandates. Advocates of the bill feel that existing funds for Parkinson's research are small compared to diseases such as AIDS and Alzheimer's. The bill proposes funding of ten research centers and is supported by several politicians.

Research, Analysis, Science and technology policy, United States. National Institutes of Health, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson disease, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research

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Human Genome Project aims to finish 'working draft' next year

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The National Human Genome Research Institute has indicated that scientists involved in the Human Genome Project plan to complete a 'working draft' of the human genetic code by spring 2000. The project's three-year 'pilot' phase has now been completed, and attention will now focus on completing the sequencing of the 3 billion bases of the human genetic code. The working draft will allow researchers access to useful sequence as quickly as possible.